TU Delft Cybersecurity group will organize the 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2027) in July 2027! The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not strictly required for publication in the proceedings.
Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months, and are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. Authors will receive a decision of accept, revise, or reject. Those receiving revise will be invited to revise their article with the guidance of a revision editor according to a well-defined set of revision criteria and will have up to four months to attempt to complete the required revisions. Authors of rejected papers must skip a full issue prior to resubmission. Please see the review process page for more information.
Submission Guidelines
The submission guidelines contain important submission information for authors. Please note especially the instructions for anonymizing submissions, for ensuring ethical research, and for using AI in writing or editing the manuscript. Papers must be submitted via the PETS 2027 submission server. The submission URL is: https://submit.petsymposium.org/.
Important Dates for PETS 2027
- Issue 1: 31 May 2026
- Issue 2: 31 August 2026
- Issue 3: 30 November 2026
- Issue 4: 28 February 2027
Papers must present novel research into privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and the social, cultural, legal, or situational contexts in which they are used. Interdisciplinary work is welcome as long as it clearly shows how the contributions impact PETs. Please follow the guidelines given below to ensure that your submission passes desk review and receives a full review by the program committee. You may ask the chairs for clarification of scope before the submission deadline.
- Papers must have strong ties to privacy in digital systems.
- The core contribution must be relevant to real-world privacy applications.
- For contributions of theoretical nature (e.g., improvements on cryptographic primitives or improvements on differential privacy), the paper should provide details about how the proposed advances would be integrated into a real-world application.
- Improvements motivated by real applications, but presented in isolation without connection to those applications, do not demonstrate relevance in practice and are therefore out of scope.
- Papers with empirical evaluations must show a clear connection to privacy and to real-world applications.
- Evaluations that are based on purely synthetic datasets, or on non-privacy-relevant datasets (e.g., MNIST, CIFAR, or SVHN) must contain a well-marked paragraph explaining why the results of the evaluation can be extrapolated to real-world use cases where privacy is of relevance.
- Papers that treat privacy as a superficial application domain (e.g., if the only relationship to privacy is a privacy-related dataset) do not demonstrate relevance to real-world privacy problems and are therefore out of scope.
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